509 Letter XL. 6, p. 274.

510 Gal. v. 6 and vi. 15.

511 John xiv. 6.

512 Letter XXVIII. ch. ii. p. 251.

513 De optimo genere interpretandi.

514 Letter LXXI., sec. 5, p. 327.

515 The critic here referred to was Canthelius, whom Jerome abuses in his commentary on the passage, insinuating that the reason why the gourds found in this scion of a noble house a champion so devoted, was that they had often rendered him a service which ivy could not have done, screening his secret potations from public notice.

516 Alluding to the extent to which Rome was indebted to Africa for corn.

517 Ps. iv. 2.

518 Ps. ii. 7,8.

519 Gal. iii. 16.

520 Gen. xxii. 18.

521 The original here is antithetical: "jam vos videtis, et adhuc invidetis."

522 Ps. xxii. 16, 17, 18.

523 Ps. xxii. 27,28.

524 Psl. 1, 2.

525 Luke xxiv. 44, 47.

526 Matt. xxiv. 12, 13.

527 Matt. xiii. 30-39.

528 Proceedings before Munatius Felix, Letter LIII. sec. 4, p. 299.

529 Optatus, Donatist bishop of Thamugada, was cast into prison A.D. 397, and died there. He was a partisan of Gildo in his rebellion against Honorius, and shared the misfortunes, as he had participated in the crimes, of his chief.

530 Jer. xxxvi. 23, 30.

531 Num. xvi. 31-33.

532 Matt. xxiv. 12,13.

533 Matt. vii. 2.

534 He refers to their visiting the tomb of Felix of Nola, in the hope that by some miracle there the innocent and the guilty would be distinguished. See Letter LXXVIII. sec. 3, p. 346.

535 Rom. xv. 4.

536 Matt. xiii. 43.

537 Matt. xviii. 7..

538 Matt. xxiv. 12,13.

539 Jn iv. 24.

540 1 Cor. xii. 9, 10, 30.

541 Third Council of Carthage, A.D. 397, Can. 7, 8.

542 2 Cor. xi. 12.

543 1 Pet. v. 8.

544 2 Cor. vi. 14.

545 Aug translates, "be sober and righteous."

546 1 Cor. xv. 33, 34.

547 "Nor count it is a great thing that they despise you."-Aug.

548 Isa. li. 7, 8.

549 1 Cor. iv. 5.

550 Deut. xxix. 29. This verse is the nearest I can find to the words here quoted by the apostle. The reference in the Bened. edition to 1 Cor. v. 12 must be a mistake.

551 2 Cor. xi. 29.

552 Ps. lxix. 26, as translated by Aug.

553 Ps. lxix. 12.

554 Luke xvi. 21-23.

555 2 Cor. vii. 5 and xi. 26.

556 Ps xciv. 12, 13.

557 Donatist bishop of Hippo.

558 1 Cor. i. 31.

559 Eph. iv. 20, 21.

560 Matt. xxiii. 3.

561 1 Cor. ix. 27.

562 Gen. ix. 27.

563 Gen. xxi. 10.

564 Mal. i. 2.

565 Gen xlix. 4.

566 2 Sam. xiii. 14.

567 Phil. ii. 20, 21.

568 Rev. xxii. 11.